My muso lawyer friend (and overall oozing-with-cool Maxim alumnus) Tristan Sage introduced me to Bon Iver during our summer internship, and I feel that I'm a better person for it. Their music is hauntingly beautiful. This song, "Woods", describes the way I'm feeling today on this cloudy autumn Charlottesville Thursday.
I'm up in the woods
I'm down on my mind
I'm building a still
To slow down the time
I think you can interpret this song in a lot of ways. To me, it's saying a bunch of different things. Enjoy the present but don't forget to reflect on your days so that you don't lose track of the course you're meant to be navigating as you sail forward in life. Take some time out every now and again to chill and think, to find and reorient yourself as you will inevitably need to. Have some alone time in the woods and explore what's in your mind, reconnect with God and your loved ones. Appreciate and revel in the fullness of life, of each day that's been given to you. Slow down the time and delight in it all. Peaceful, calm, pensive, thankful, content. All those things.
Check out Bon Iver's other stuff too, they're pretty amazing. I particularly like "Skinny Love". I'm actually listening to it right now. Gold.
Happy November, everyone.
G.
I have a huge appreciation for Bon Iver. If I listen to Re: Stacks more than three times in a row, I will always somehow be on the verge of crying. That song unravels me.
ReplyDeleteGreat to hear what you've been listening to lately! Hope everything is well over there :) <3
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